IWF report – 88% of sexting images are copied
he final paper relating to a study into self-generated, sexually explicit content of young people on the internet has been published.
It was conducted in September 2012 over 47 working hours. The Internet Watch Foundation’s Analysts looked at the amount of content they could find which was sexually explicit, of young people which appeared to be self-generated either by themselves or someone else.
It revealed that most of the content catalogued by the analysts – in fact a whopping 88% – had been taken from its original upload source and put somewhere else. Often this would be in collections.
The message to our young people is that if they take part in creating this sort of imagery they are likely to lose control of it once it is uploaded on the internet.
A copy of the report can be found here
Source: UK Safer Internet Centre Insider
